0 Programs with Cathy Silak

Cathy Silak, serves as Dean of Concordia University's School of Law, soon to be opened in Boise. She joined the university in 2008 after serving as President and CEO of the Idaho Community Foundation, a statewide public charity, since 2004. Prior to that, Dean Silak was a partner in the Boise firm of Hawley Troxell Ennis & Hawley, before becoming the first woman in Idaho appointed an appellate judge in 1990, then appointed to the Idaho Supreme Court in 1993, serving until 2000. Dean Silak holds a BA in both Sociology and French Literature from New York University. She received her MA in City Planning from Harvard University and her J.D. from the University of California School of Law. Dean Silak went on to earn her LL.M. degree from University of Virginia Law School in 1995.